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After the hearing, Adrian Clark, a friend of Courney's, posted this on Facebook: "Daniel Stephen Courney convicted at Lincoln Magistrate Court by a District Judge on two counts of religious and racially motivated public order offences.

"The judge was a impassioned multi-culturalist. He seemed antagonistic to the one person publicly declaring another's religious beliefs as being wrong.

"He trusted the prosecution witnesses despite their glaring inconsistencies. Despite Daniel being a man who serves his community in India and Nepal without fear or favour, (all are subject to his generosity), and courageously protected a Muslim from being beaten in Bristol, this seemed to have had no bearing on the judge's finding. An appeal has been lodged."

Lincolnshire Live has invited Courney, who is originally from Mohegan Lake, New York, to comment.